This template is used to lay out questions and answers for Arbitration Committee Elections candidate questions pages (e.g. "Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2022/Candidates/CandidateUserNameHere/Questions")
One instance of the template is used for each Q&A (usually a maximum of two): If more than one, they must be back-to-back, without a blank line between them, or incorrect numbering will result:
#{{ACE Question
|Q=What is your name?
|A=
}}
#{{ACE Question
|Q=What is your quest?
|A=
}}
The candidate, when responding, adds their answer in the |A=
parameter.
|Q=
– Mandatory, and with content in it. This is where to write your question for the candidate.|A=
– Mandatory, and blank when the template is inserted by the question-asker. This is where the candidate will write their answer to your question.|Sub=
– Optional. This is for asking sub-questions, to respond to previous answers. Possible values are |Sub=2
or |Sub=3
When |Sub=
is used, the results look like the following:
#{{ACE Question
|Q=A first question.
|A=An answer.
}}
#{{ACE Question
|Q=Another question, in response to the first answer.
|A=A response, elaborating further.
|Sub=2
}}
#{{ACE Question
|Q=Another question, in response to the elaboration.
|A=Another response.
|Sub=3
}}
Because this uses a bunch of nested wikicode for list layout, it is fairly easy to break, e.g. by including wikimarkup-coded tables in a question or answer, etc. One example might be attempting to use {{Collapse}}
(a table-based template) in an answer, which will just fail dramatically. The variant {{Collapse/HTML}}
exists, which should work better.
However, something like that can still mess up the list code, for subsequent Q&As:
{{ACE Question/HTML}}
, which uses raw-HTML ordered-list markup instead of wikicode ordered-list markup. It defaults to list item no. 2, since that's going to be the most common case needed. However, you can customize the numbered with |start=
. To get the display to work properly, you will need to remove the leading #
from {{ACE Question/HTML}}
instances.
This is most often needed when the previous question or answer to it contained complex markup, or when someone added a "Thanks for your detailed reply" sort of comment between the questions.
#{{ACE Question
|Q=What is your name?
|A=Arthur, King of the Britons. I have also used these usernames: [table or list inserted here]
}} <!-- Markup in that answer broke auto-numbering, so switched to "ACE Questions/HTML": -->
{{ACE Question/HTML
|Q=What is your quest?
|A=I seek the Holy Grail.
}}
{{ACE Question/HTML |start=3
|Q=What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
|A=...
}}
If it still doesn't work properly, try inserting a </ol>
immediately after the }}
that closes the previous Q&A template.
</ol>
immediately after the }}
that closes the first Q&A template (or the second one if there are three Q&As and only the third is indenting too far.
<ul><li>...</li><li>...</li></ul>
for an unordered (bulleted) list; or <ol><li>...</li><li>...</li></ol>
for an ordered (numbered) list.